I created the completing the square foldable for my Algebra 2 students to glue in their interactive notebooks. It encourages them to use an algebra tile representation for completing the square in order to set up their working.
I gave students four of their own problems to work on the inside of the foldable.
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- Speedy Squares Activity for Quadratic Regression
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- Quadratic Area Puzzles
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- Shared Factors – A Quadratics Puzzle
- Factoring Quadratics Practice Activity (When a = 1)
- If the IRS had discovered the quadratic formula…
- Area Model Puzzles from Christie Bradshaw
- ZERO Game to Introduce Factoring Quadratics
- Vertex Form of a Quadratic Card Sort Activity
- Factoring Quadratics Foldable
Unknown
Thursday 4th of February 2016
How do you use this when your b value is odd?
Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove)
Thursday 4th of February 2016
Which method?
Kirsten Shaw
Monday 25th of May 2015
Can you share how you explained the "picture" box in the completing the square notes? Thanks for sharing!
Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove)
Tuesday 9th of June 2015
Adding this to my list of things to blog about!